Quotes About Commitment

You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.

When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.

My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.

Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one's life.

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.

God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.

One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd..."

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.